博学者:从列奥纳多·达·芬奇到苏珊·桑塔格的文化史 The Polymath : A Cultural History from Leonardo da Vinci to Susan Sontag

基本信息

Format: Paperback| 352 pages  

Dimensions: 127x 197x 27.94mm| 340.19g  

Publication date: 31 Aug 2021 

Publisher: Yale University Press  

Publication City/Country: United States 

Language: English 

Edition Statement: Reprint 

Illustrations note: 22 color illus. 

ISBN10: 0300260466 

ISBN13: 9780300260465

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

从达芬奇到约翰-迪和夸美纽斯，从乔治-艾略特到奥利弗-萨克斯和苏珊-桑塔格，多面手以无数方式推动了知识的前沿。但是，历史对具有这种百科全书式兴趣的学者来说可能是不友善的。这些人往往只因其宝贵成就的一部分而被人记住。

在这本引人入胜、博学多才的著作中，知名的文化历史学家彼得-伯克主张采用更多方位的观点。伯克确定了500位西方多面手，探讨了他们广泛的成功，并展示了他们的崛起如何与印刷术发明、新世界的发现和科学革命时代的知识快速增长相匹配。知识的进一步加速导致了专业化程度的提高，也导致了对广泛的学者和科学家不太支持的环境。

横跨文艺复兴时期到今天，伯克改变了我们对这一杰出知识物种的理解。

From Leonardo Da Vinci to John Dee and Comenius, from George Eliot to Oliver Sacks and Susan Sontag, polymaths have moved the frontiers of knowledge in countless ways. But history can be unkind to scholars with such encyclopedic interests. All too often these individuals are remembered for just one part of their valuable achievements.

In this engaging, erudite account, renowned cultural historian Peter Burke argues for a more rounded view. Identifying 500 western polymaths, Burke explores their wide-ranging successes and shows how their rise matched a rapid growth of knowledge in the age of the invention of printing, the discovery of the New World and the Scientific Revolution. It is only more recently that the further acceleration of knowledge has led to increased specialization and to an environment that is less supportive of wide-ranging scholars and scientists.

Spanning the Renaissance to the present day, Burke changes our understanding of this remarkable intellectual species.

作者简介

彼得-伯克是剑桥大学的文化史荣誉教授。他是许多杰出书籍的作者，这些书籍已被翻译成三十多种语言。

Peter Burke is emeritus professor of cultural history at Cambridge University. He is the author of many distinguished books that have been translated into more than thirty languages.